@ssenna,I guess it has already be asked and maybe it is just not possible to implement it, but to add the possibility to change on demand (w/o changing manually the order in the preferences) the server for Biography panel and/or to specify a server for a particular biography panel in the layout would be great. Hence we could have a specific Biography panel for Last.fm, another one for wikipedia or for AMG...

[Not my release] Biography view

Thank you so much for this script. It works perfectly. I would also like to know if there is a way to have it pull the artist biography instead of the album review. I know nothing about this sort of thing, so any help you could provide would be great.

[Not my release] Biography view

Problem can emerge when there are more artists with the same name. Typical example, pop artist "Air", and returned result for jazz artists from 70s. Right now, first match is returned that matches artist name (played in foobar), and although options exists for "relevance" or "significant" parsing, that doesn't solve possible issue, as I quickly checked. So keeping the script simple and fast I won't add another page request to check artist discography for match. However if more users demand it, I'll do it

My only issue when I was writing first script was that I couldn't find a way to parse HTML page as XML/XHTML instead using regular expressions. I wraped it in XHTML but MS XMLDOM couldn't see it. If someone has idea how to parse HTML as XML in VBScript please let me know.

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I know nothing about this sort of thing, so any help you could provide would be great.

If you compare both scripts you can see that it isn't that hard to pull arbitrary data from allmusic. Maybe I should have commented the code, but it seem silly to do so for such small script.

[Not my release] Biography view

Thanks again for the script. It works perfectly. It would be great if you could have it check artist discography in the event of multiple matches, but I understand the desire to not want to do that unless really demanded. I also do not know the impact of that additional check on the speed, as the script as written returns results very quickly, which is great.

Problem can emerge when there are more artists with the same name. Typical example, pop artist "Air", and returned result for jazz artists from 70s. Right now, first match is returned that matches artist name (played in foobar), and although options exists for "relevance" or "significant" parsing, that doesn't solve possible issue, as I quickly checked. So keeping the script simple and fast I won't add another page request to check artist discography for match. However if more users demand it, I'll do it

My only issue when I was writing first script was that I couldn't find a way to parse HTML page as XML/XHTML instead using regular expressions. I wraped it in XHTML but MS XMLDOM couldn't see it. If someone has idea how to parse HTML as XML in VBScript please let me know.

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I know nothing about this sort of thing, so any help you could provide would be great.

If you compare both scripts you can see that it isn't that hard to pull arbitrary data from allmusic. Maybe I should have commented the code, but it seem silly to do so for such small script.

Edit: Minor issue corrected. Line 31: "<div id=""bio""> to "bio"">

thank you!

you can get information discography?I do not know anything about scripting ....

Problem can emerge when there are more artists with the same name. Typical example, pop artist "Air", and returned result for jazz artists from 70s. Right now, first match is returned that matches artist name (played in foobar), and although options exists for "relevance" or "significant" parsing, that doesn't solve possible issue, as I quickly checked. So keeping the script simple and fast I won't add another page request to check artist discography for match. However if more users demand it, I'll do it

My only issue when I was writing first script was that I couldn't find a way to parse HTML page as XML/XHTML instead using regular expressions. I wraped it in XHTML but MS XMLDOM couldn't see it. If someone has idea how to parse HTML as XML in VBScript please let me know.

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I know nothing about this sort of thing, so any help you could provide would be great.

If you compare both scripts you can see that it isn't that hard to pull arbitrary data from allmusic. Maybe I should have commented the code, but it seem silly to do so for such small script.

[Not my release] Biography view

file>preferences>tools>biography server. add run external script to the current source list. highlight it and move it to the top of the list.back in the left hand pane, select run external script and add this new command

now i'm not sure if the scripts folder here is relative to the user profile folder or the main foobar folder so you'll have to work that out for yourself. save the script from the pastebin website using the same file name.

[Not my release] Biography view

I love this plugin....but my only problem is with the "AC/DC" name, I use the following file path to save the last.fm data on my pc:__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Metadata: C:\Users\maXelo\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000\lastfm\artist\$swapprefix(%artist%,A,The,Los,El,La,At The,As I,At The)Image: C:\Users\maXelo\AppData\Roaming\foobar2000\lastfm\artist\$swapprefix(%artist%,A,The,Los,El,La,At The,As I,At The)